[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 87 (Friday, May 25, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING NANCY EWTON SHARPE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF A MAJOR MILESTONE

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                           HON. LINCOLN DAVIS

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 24, 2007

  Mr. LINCOLN DAVIS of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, Milestones indicate 
distances traveled by one or many, collectively. I rise today to honor 
one individual from the beautiful Sequatchie Valley for having reached 
the 50-year anniversary of a major milestone in her life.
  Ms. Nancy Ewton Sharpe of Dunlap, Tennessee, the first born of W. 
Howard and Jeanette Campbell Ewton, was brought into this world on 
April 1, 1938. Her grandparents, F.P. and Nancy Ann Ewton, started a 
funeral home in 1919 and built their own caskets. Nancy attended school 
in Dunlap for 12 years graduating in 1956. She then began studies at 
the John A. Gupton College of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tennessee. 
Graduating in 1957, she was the first dually licensed female funeral 
director-embalmer in the State of Tennessee. I rise today to honor Ms. 
Sharpe's accomplishment and celebrate the 50th anniversary of her 
success.

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